Word: sargeants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scornful Blasts. Along the way, he has blasted the work of most of his colleagues, including such contemporary reviewers as the New York Times's Harold Schonberg ("vulgarity and offensiveness"), and The New Yorker's Winthrop Sargeant ("deficiencies of critical perception, judgment and taste"). Recently, he wrote scornfully that Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing is "a bully" whose "monstrosities" prove him to be "not only without understanding of the special requirements of opera but without taste...
Moreover, with each passing year, the state's case became stronger. Sargeant could make the claim that the DPW had to move on the Inner Belt, or risk not completing the road by 1972 and thereby forfeiting millions of dollars in federal funds (the Interstate Highway program, financing 90 per cent of the Inner Belt, was scheduled to stop then...
...been a leadership fight for the Speaker's chair, and in the ensuing struggle, John Toomey lost the chair of the Ways and Means Committee. Whereas he enjoyed the ear of the former, retired speaker, John F. "Iron Duke" Thompson, he had no c'ose relationship with his successor. Sargeant's bid to remove the remaining vestiges of the veto did not run into opposition from the new leadership in either the House or the Senate...
During the summer, Cambridge was stripped of the shield to which it had clung so many years--the veto. A new DPW commissioner, Francis W. Sargeant, went to Beacon Hill determined to get rid of the veto. And he did. Sargeant has become known in the Boston press, as an effective "salesman," and his meteoric rise in politics (he left the DPW in the summer of 1966 to run for Lieutenant Governor, won his race, and is now seriously mentioned as a possible candidate for Governor in 1970) is often attributed to his personable, but persistent approach...
...When officer Murphy was killed in the line of duty, officer Clancy was assigned to take over his beat, the most dangerous and prestigious in the precinct. Clancy was very proud and happy until the sargeant informed him that he would have to marry the late Mr. Murphy's wife. "That's outrageous," he cried looking over the homely woman. "I want his job but not his wife!" "Look, fella," muttered the sargeant philosophically...